Compact Crossword - The Scotsman - 17/03/14

8. Purpose (3)

9. Exhaustion (9)

10. Musical work (5)

11. Monstrosity (7)

12. Game-birds (8)

14. Made of money (4)

15. Pipe (4)

16. Try pitch (anag) (8)

20. Skating exhibition (3,4)

21. Broom (5)

23. Before birth (9)

24. Beard of barley (3)

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1. Thin (6)

2. Portent (4)

3. Informed hint (3-3)

4. Speak to (4,1,4,4)

5. Sea-duck (5)

6. Smaller number (8)

7. Entangle (6)

13. Opera text (8)

15. Country formerly Formosa (6)

17. Rounded stone (6)

18. Kind (6)

19. Sidetrack (5)

22. Counterfeit (4)